Christer Holloman

"One of London's Most Influential Individuals Within New Media"
The Evening Standard

Christer is the CEO of Divido. He is a former Sky News technology feature writer, author of Amazon bestseller The Social Media MBA. He was Chairman of First Tuesday, the UK's largest network for high growth technology companies and their investors and he was Head of Digital Product Development at The Times and The Sunday Times.

He is a prolific author with six book published, The Social Media MBA in Practice being one of the most popular. 

Clients that have recently hired him as a keynote speaker include Fortune 500 companies across the EMEA region, such as VISA, Microsoft and Ogilvy.

Apart from his contagious energy, entertaining and 'aha' filled presentations, as the many testimonials confirm, what makes Christer unique as a keynote speaker is that he lives and breathes real digital innovation and delivery for a living. He won't be providing theories, but instead real facts, as well as tried and tested actionable hands-on advice alongside fresh best practice case studies.

Christer is regularly hired by clients to address their guests and senior management at conferences and kick-offs to inspire and excite the attendees with new ideas they can apply to their own business or department.

Delegates leave the room feeling great about the organiser and the future!

Christer Holloman holds a BSc in Business from the University of Umeå, Sweden and the British bespoke tailor Gieves & Hawkes has identified him one of thirteen 'Men With Style'.

Each talk is tailored to the client, audience, industry, country and format of the overall event.

The two most popular keynote topics:
1) Masterclass: The Social Media MBA- The Most Innovative Business Use of Social Media

It's a fact that companies so far have only scratched the surface of what can be achieved with social media. Whatever your continent, industry, company size, current degree of social media adoption or job title, the purpose of this session is to inspire you to see how you can raise the bar to reap new rewards.

Themes:
- Social Media Basics (background, create and deliver a social strategy)
- Social Media By Department (marketing, PR, sales, customer service, product development and HR)
- Best Practice by Social Media Channel (e.g. LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.)
- Calculating ROI
- Emerging Issues & Future Trends

Sample cases studies:
Product Development: Barclaycard, creating the world's first social credit card
Quality Management: Sony, how social sentiment fuels the TQM feedback loop
Service Delivery: PwC, crowd-sourcing client solutions on a global scale

2) The End Of The Digital Beginning
- Key Technology Trends And Why They Matter To Your Business

Sample themes:
- Why MoLoSo Isn't Good Enough
- How Big Data Is About Little Data
- Collaborative Capitalism
- Fintech Disruption
- Reinvented Retail
- Living In The Stream
- Education At Scale
- Hottest Tech Start-Ups

INTERVIEWS:
B2B Marketing Magazine: http://bit.ly/Ocmfey
Director (IoD): http://bit.ly/OkvhX5

TESTIMONIAL EXAMPLES:
'He communicated his message with a rare contagious passion and authenticity'Johan Svensson, CEO, Borneo Family 'Throughout he acted as a true audience's advocate'James Cameron, Founder, Camerjam Events 'Christer provided us with a lively, relevant and insightful presentation, which sparked off great debate within the group' Lindsey Morgan, Account Director, Ogilvy